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Question follow-through · 113652

Foot and Mouth Disease: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether guidance has been given to (a) developers and (b) local planning authorities on development exclusion zones around former foot and mouth burial pits.

answeredDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tabled
20 Feb 2026
Target answer date
24 Feb 2026
Answer
24 Mar 2026 · 32 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether guidance has been given to (a) developers and (b) local planning authorities on development exclusion zones around former foot and mouth burial pits.

  2. 24 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Defra does not issue guidance on development on, or near land, previously used as a FMD pit.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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